United Nations Chief Ban Ki-Moon to Lead Global Campaign for Gay Rights Tris Reid-Smith - Gay Star News
go to original April 22, 2013

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking at a celebration for International Human Rights Day 2012, emphasized that human rights are universal and apply to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people along with everyone else. (HumanRightsWatch)

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has promised to lead a global campaign for LGBT rights.

And he has told governments around the world that they have a ‘legal duty’ to protect gay and trans people and that ‘culture, tradition or religion’ could not be used as an excuse for failing to do so.

His comments in a video message to the Oslo Conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity yesterday (15 April) were not his first remarks on sexual orientation or gender identity – but were the strongest-worded.

The head of the UN has previously called the criminalization of homosexuality ‘an outrage’ inherited from ‘former colonial powers’, saying the laws ‘must go’.

Some of the same language is reflected in his address to the Oslo delegates.

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